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Unearthing the Nation
Grace Yen Shen
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Description for Unearthing the Nation
Hardcover. Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. This title uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFN; PDX; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Shen shows that Chinese geologists-in battling growing Western and Japanese encroachment of Chinese sovereignty-faced two ongoing challenges: how to develop objective, internationally recognized scientific authority without effacing native identity, and how to ... Read more
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Shen shows that Chinese geologists-in battling growing Western and Japanese encroachment of Chinese sovereignty-faced two ongoing challenges: how to develop objective, internationally recognized scientific authority without effacing native identity, and how to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226090405
SKU
V9780226090405
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About Grace Yen Shen
Grace Yen Shen is assistant professor of Chinese history at Fordham University.
Reviews for Unearthing the Nation
"A rich, innovative, and finely crafted historical study of Chinese geology and society during the Republican period. It creatively combines political history, cultural analyses, and the history of science in tracing the development of the Chinese geoscientific community and related institutions, with special attention to the transnational dimensions of the enterprise. It will be recognized as a major contribution not ... Read more